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- Last week I met with the Muhammad Asghar the Rector of the Pakistan National University of Science and Technology (NUST) and Dr. Arshad Ali the Director General (DG) of the NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS). They were excited to hear of the upcoming roadmap. Arshad visited he University of Malaysia in KL (UM) in October 2011 and the VC of the UM recently visited NUST. Both sides are keen to reach out to one another. As a result of this they (NUST/SEECS) are interested in looking at how to engage a collaboration of NUST/SEECS, UNIMAS and SLAC on PingER. Possible ways to advance would include:
- Inviting one or two people from NUST/SEECS who have been collaborating on PingER for some years, have set up a PingER archiving site and manage multiple PingER monitors in Pakistan.
- They could make valuable presentations on hands-on experiences (both technical, political and social) with building the archive site, managing multiple monitoring sites, mining the data, engaging customers (monitor sites contacts and decision makers, the network providers PERN (Pakistan Educational and Research Network), the funding agency (Higher Education Commission), preparing reports for the customers, and the benefits ensuing etc.
- Putting together a joint proposal (UNIMAS, NUST/SEECS, SLAC, possibly another Malaysian university such as UM) to a funding source for a joint project to set up a monitoring infrastructure for Malaysia educational sites.
- Arshad is also putting together a letter to the VC of UM.
- We could set up a 3 way Skype meeting, this time of day works for all sites.
- Inviting one or two people from NUST/SEECS who have been collaborating on PingER for some years, have set up a PingER archiving site and manage multiple PingER monitors in Pakistan.
- How does UNIMAS feel.
Future meetings
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